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THREE WISHES -.By Mattie I'J�'Casiii .
Many years ago, in Ireland, not fart that none but a connoisseur could dis
tingaish the difference.
Soon -a customer, attracted by their
beauty, inquired thepritce. Finding it
far below what he had expected, he
immediately purchased a set, without
asking any further questions regard-
ing diem.
While he was counting out the.
money to the merchant, Jack ap-
proached him.
p-proached.hirn. The purchaser said:
'PI am buying some diamonds from
your master. Aren't they pure and
beautiful?"
"They are beautiful," said Jack,
"but not pure."
"What!" exclaimed the astonished
purchaser. "Do you mean to say they
are not diamonds?" •
"They are not diamonds," was :the
cgol reply, "We call then paste."
"Paste!" said the offended customer,
with a sniff. "I can make paste my-
self !
y -self! I£ I cannot have diamonds for
my money, I will have nothing," and.
sweeping the silver hack into his'
purse, he walked oft in high dudgeon.
"There!" said the merchant, angrily,
to Jack, "you have spoiled another
sale for me! That clown would have
up to the table and partook :ravenously purchased the jewels for the trifle I
of the substantial food. asked for them, and enjoyed the pis -
After she had eaten everything that session of diamonds to the loss of no
was set before her she arose, and giv- one, You have already revealed see-
ing her long nose a pull which seemed
to double its length, she said: - ,
"1 am a fairy, good people, and for
your kindness to me 1 will allow yea
to make three .wishes, for your bene-
fit, my; led. The first two belong to merchant attempted to inflict upon
your grandmothers for her care. and Mm a parting kick, but the limb was
kindness in rearing you, and shall be paralyzed on the instant, and the mer
granted immediately. The other one chant discovered, to his horror, that
you can express and I will grant you it was without feeling or power of
.on your twenty-first birthday. Do not motion.
ask for wealth or fame, for such rack fled from his master's wrath,
treasures are not in my power to be- and made his way sadly Back to his
Stow. I control only the hearts and kind' grandmother, who gave him a
passions of my beneficiary, and can warm welcome and cheered him with.
give you traits of character that will hopes of better fortune in the future.
enable you to do much good in the But as years passed without any
world, and a:so much evil." marked change in his fortune) he had
The grandmother, who desired her almost despaired of ever being any -
boy to be good, rather than great, said, thing more than a poor forester, when
unhesitatingly: one day, -at noon, returning home
"Grant that jack may always be laden with his gatherings, his atten-
compelled to tell the truth, the whole tion was attracted bygroans near him
truth, and nothing but the truth." in the forest. truth regarding the wound, or failed t to tell the troth, while the rest of you
"I will," said the fairy; "but re- Following the direction of the sound, to dress it so sla•llfuUy, be would have have hidden your cowardly characters
member that perpetual truth -telling he discovered .none other than his died in a short time. behind huge breastworks of lies."
may
lead him into difficulties and majesty the king, lying prone upon the Of course the king was ready to As Jack had already won the aifec-
hose
heaphonors upon Jack, who was tions of the young princess, to w
rofu from a
death itself may and and bleeding p sE y.I •at d
daargers, and' oven y groknighted immediately and introduced hand his trntlifu'.ness had e.e' e
be the result." •• wound In the back. i g
'"Then,"' said the dame, "my next Jack knelt beside the fallen mon- at court. . Here he met the king's him, he was rejoiced.
is h h 1 ' ed th t hh 1 d daughter, and like all the other Preparations were going, on for the
from the' city of Cork, lived an old
woman ` and her grandson, Jack, a
bright, handsome boy of twelve.They had no other relations, and
Moth worked hard for their food and
seethes. The grandmother spent most,
of her time knitting, while Jeck gatlr-
eped peat, berries. and other treasures
from the neighboring forest and car-
ried them to the city fbr sale.
One evening, as he eat at the door
of their cabin, wearied by" a• day of
labor, he was accosted by an aged
woman, leaning epee a stick, who beg-
ged him, in the name of charity, for
a cup of goat's milk.
- She looked many years older than
his grandmother,•who came bleakly to
the door and invited her in, while Jack
;`an to the goat -pen to 'procure the
coveted' draught of milk, which she
drank as though nearly tarnished.She was invited to remain for a
cotnfortable meal, which was soon pre-
pared, and readily accepting their
hospitality, the little old woman -who
tacked several inches of standing as
tall as Jack -taking her stick, hobbled
rets of the trade which T fain would
have respected. You will ruin my
business! So leave my house with
your tattling tongue!"
And as Jack turned to obey, -the
GREYHOUND TAKES TO SEA '
Above is shown the launching at Ilia'lcenhea3 of Great Britain's mighty
new warship, Rodney. Princess Mary, accompanied by her leieleand, Lord
Laacelles, and Lord Derby, performed the christening ceremony.
wish is that the limb which attemp arc , w o cap am a is arse la t
to injure mknights boy may become paralyz- galloped away from his companions in gh s he, in time, fell deeply in love wedding, when theking, who was rest-
.
tli her. ( less and ambitious, declared wet
against a weaker neighboring mon-
arch, sent vast armies into his do-
main, conquered him, and tools pos-
session of his kingdom.
Jack's prospective father-in-law,
jubilant over his additional 'power,
said to Jack:
"Dont you think I haveshotvn wis-
wis-
dom and policy, and deserve great cre-
Then al o e story, dit for my good management?'t
the other. Jack being the youngest "No, was the reply, "You have been
was obliged to wait until the rest had treacherous to your neighbor, and dis-
finished, honorable in attacking him when his
They related 'marvelous tales of armies were too weak to defend him,
their own bravery, each succeeding and deserve to' be punished for your
one trying to make his story outrival wickedness." talk angered
any that' had gone before. Of course, such plain g
It Is scarcely necessary. to add that the king, and he raised his arm to
they all drew largely on their imaging- strike the offender, but it was stricken
ed to its owner until he shall repent the hunt and had thrown him upon
an make eine s.
"Granted," said the fairy. "And now on a sharp stick. only the bravest of knights for his
you shall see me no more until Jack "But," he added,"I do not think I daughter's?. husband.
birth -am badly hurt,and I will give you a I want each of you," said he, gath
has reeched his twenty-firstyerin all her suitors around him, to
day" hundred pounds if you will assist me g
Then, raising her stick, she passed to my hunting -box, which is not far tell ma, the story of your life, and
it slowly over her head, 'describing a away, for I do not -wish a gaping whoever can enumerate the greatest
half -circle, 'and was 'gone,, crowd of my subjects to gather number of brave deeds shall have my
Not longafter, as Jack was' gather- around, and see me, their king, lying daughter's hand in marriage.
', 1 told their iter one alter
• ing peat by the wayside, a traveler, here, helpless and humiliated in the
riding a jaded' horse, drew rein beside forest."` '
him and said: The exertion of speaking caused him
"Boy,,, my horse is nearly exhausted, to turn deadly pale, and Jack, who
I have lost my way, but, if you will had been examining •the wound and
tell me I am on the direct road to stanching the flow of brood, saw in an
Cork, I will give you this silver coin instant that he •could not be moved
which I hold in eny hand." without danger,
"You are not," said jack, telling the "I. cannot obey your majesty,' he
truth. "You took' 'the wrong branch' said, trying to speak respectfully. tions for their wonderful narratives, powerless on the: instant.
three miles back, leaving the Cork The exertion of walking will cause ark's wtonderful
camera was Jack,rdon hthe store of his life,
road to ,your left, You are now travel- more blood to flow, and you may die and when J
h Big Forest." if Your wound is not dressed immedi- regarded by the rest with envy, for had, of course, repeated his interview
ing directly toward the B g Y
"Ispossible?" said the stranger,1 atel Igather herbs for market, and they all knew he had the grivilege of with the fairy, and and it had re
it poY more to Eke cataIc�tte of his suited in the diamond merchant's:
re-
.
ease.
So the haughty monarch knew how
to remove the era, and, while strug-
gling with his pride, endeavoring to
d nd "
the ground forcibly, striking his back But the king declared he would have
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BRIDGE
New Series byWYNI FERGUSON
author ofPe
'rgu con on e. uctxoln 2lridge
Copyright 1925 by Hoyle, Jr.
ARTICLE No. 14
No score, rubber game. 'Z dealt and„
bid one no-trump, A bid two hearts,
Y and B passed. Z now bid two no-trump
A bid three diamonds, Y doubled and
$ passed. Z now bid three no-trump, A
doubled, Y redoubled and 13 passed. If
you were holding Z's cards, how would
you size up the bidding and what would
you do?
The trick bidder seems to be flourish-
ing lately, for a number of hands have
been submitted as examples of the value
of trickbids. These may be all right for
the gambling type of players but the
writer refers the sound conventional
bids, bids that really inform. There is
no system of bidding that can hold its
, own with a system that gives exact in-
formatien at all times, information that
really informs, The bidding, if conven-
tional, should "mirror" one's hand to
one's partner. It should give informa-
tion that will enable partner to act in-
telligently in his subsequent bidding.
The goal of all bidding of auction is to
arrive at the best bid of the combined
hands,. that is the best bid of twenty-
six cards, not of thirteen. A player who
uses trick bids may confuse his op-
ponents occasionally but in the long
run, he loses more by loss of faith of his
partner in the soundness of his bids,
than he can possibly gain by his trick
bidding. A partnership to be successful,
either in business or auction, must be
founded on mutual trust and confidence,
For that reason, be reliable at all times.
Let your bids mean what you say.
"Every advertised feature a sacred
pledge," is not only a good motto for
business men but also for auction play-
ers. Learn the conventional bids and
stick to them. Be reliable, first, last end
all the time.
"than I am wrong again? and but for know 'which to use to make you safe a ing
your honesty, my lad, you would now' and comfortable, I will only call my brave deeds than any of them had
be enjoying the possession of my', grandmother, whose cabin is but a done.
money and I traveling to almost ser-; few steps frons here, to assist me, and But to their astonishment he told a
Iain death among the highwaymen of she will watch with you while I go to
the Big Forest!" the hunting -box and get your private d them I
In the following hand, the tricky
bidder won out but his gain on that
hand has more than been offset by loss
of confidence of his partner. There's
nothing in these trick bide in. the long
run so keep away from them. The ex-
ample is given more as a warning than
as a model to follow,
Hearts- 9, 6, 3
Clubs -A,K,Q, J, 10,3,2
Diamonds -8, 6
Spades- 5
r Y s
sA Bs
Z s
Hearts- A, Q J
Clubs -9, i, 4.
Diamonds - A, 9, 2
Spades - A, Q, 4, 2
In the actual play Z passed and A lad
down seven set up club tricks and so
set the contract by three tricks or 600
points. A's trick bidding was successful
ih this instance' but Y and Z should
have been on the start. Z's miatake oc-
curred when he felled to allow the three
diamond double to stayin. If he had, A
would have bid four clubs and if doub-
led would have lost three tricks or 300
points. Y made a serious error by re-
doubling A'a double of three no-trump:
He should have realized by then that
A. could not be doubling on diamonds
or hearts. As he held four spades, A's
double must be based on the club suit.
His redouble is very bad. With Z's hand,
the writer would have bid four s adea
It should have been apparent that A
was doubling on the club suit and noth-
ing more. At spades, YZ could make
four odd without trouble. The hands of;
alt four players are as follows:
Hearts - K, 7, 5
Clubs - 8, 5
Diamonds - IL, Q, J, 7
Spades - J, 10, 9, 8
Y
:A
B:
Hearts -10, 8, 4, 2
Clubs -6
Diamonds -10, 5, 4, 3
Spades - K, 7, 6, 3
Hearts -A Q J
Clubs
-n9, 7,A4, Diamonds -A, 9, 2
Spades - A, Q, 4, 2
Problem No. 8
The following hand involves a principle of play that cornea up very frequently.
Think out a plan of play that you believe is sound and compare it tvith the
writer's analysis that will be given in the next article.
Hearts - Q, 9, 4 3 s - I Hearts - A, J, 10,7,2
Clubs -10,9, :
Diamonds -8, 3 Clubs -A
: A B Diamonds --K Q, 4
Spades -- Q, 7, 4, 3 s Z s Spades - A, 10, 8, 2
Score, YZ.16, AB 10, rubber game.Z dealt and bid one no-trump, A and Y
passed and B doubled. Z passed, A bid two spades, Y and 13 passed and Z bid
two no-trump. A and Y passed, B bid three spades, Z doubled and all passed.;
If Y opened the six of clubs, how should A plan the play of the combined Itandse
titanic you for your gift, and what it
has already brought me."
"As you please," said the fairy,
somewhat stiffly. "Of course, the re-
moval of the spell restores to their
normal condition the two who had
been injured inyour behalf."
Saying this, she was gone.
Then the king, pleased to think he
had recovered the use of his arm,
without lowering his dignity as a king
by making an apology to an inferior,
was the gracious monarch again, and
forgave Jack, on condition the latter
would be more respectful to him in
the future.
Moral; It is better to keep silent
than reveal an unpleasant truth.
MyShip.
I search the far horizon for my ship,
My ship that must et lash come home
to me,
Weighted with all the gold of. heart's
desire,
Sailing majestic on a sunlit see.
simple, straightforward story of his Bearing the cargo of ery dreams. come
uneventful life and assure frame the words of an apology that true
had never slain an enemy in a duel, would not lower the dignity of'a king,
"I must speak the truth," said Jack, servant with a conveyance."
bluntly. Without waiting.waiting.for a reply, ,Ile ran nor killed a tiger with a club, nor he heard a voice at his elbow say,
"Well," said the tt•aveler, "you have hastily to his cabin, informed his jumped into the arena where lions This is Jack's itthey'bo h
birth -
lost the half -dollar, but I want you to grandmother and quickly gathered the were fighting to procure a lady's fan, day,"looking g around,
r cabin anis let me tars necessary herbs and bandages: nor incurred any the dangers which beheld the little withered fairy, who,
t with
to item cabin Y y
with you until morning: I am a dia- They soon had the wound neatlyand the 'others professed to have conquer- addressing Jack, said: "What is your
mond merchant in -the city of Cork, skillfully dressed. Then Jack ran off ed. wish, eon?"
laugh of scorn and derision arose "That you remove the spell, good
need a eerie who is strictly honest. to inform one confidential 'servant; A g mother, h t y h thrown around
T whom • the km Hama an a s or
I will - biro you,andyou can earn g
brought a
many half -dollars if you continue al-
ways to, speak the truth.
One day the merchant purchased a
lot of paste diamonds, that were such
perfect imitations of the real- gems
d, d inshort at the eonchision of his simple'narra
time the -wounded monarch was borne' tive, but it was quickly rough t o
gently on a litter, helpless and almost close by the king declaring that Jack
unconscious, to his private chambers: should be his son -in -law -
The physicians afterwards informed "For," said he, "Sir Jaek is the
him that had Jack not spoken the bravest of my knights, having dared
'Wishes ass. hopes and plane of all my
days.,
All that I ani and all.1 hope to be
After the stove and stress and long
delays,
Deer Love, for you I crave this ship of
Listening to Music From:
Reproducing Instruments.
The muss° of radio, of the 1h0lio
graph, of the playerplltno, is develop
ing a .new style ,of neesteetstenesg, and
a new type of ninistc lisbe,nefr Tiii; le
music sprung tian invisiible seances•
Tale listener to it is purely a listener
He sees. mw,tlidisg. MB thoughts nra-y
wander, but hie eye does, flat rove,
Not for barn ,the cestouuaty 5ux•reme
Inge of m'is'deal performance, the many
and. varied; sdisibractioes oS, the etogo,
the platform, the auditorium, the
moventseavt, obs ,glitter, the conta,ot of
the anddenoe, the personal appeal of
tbs performing artist Afl lib'eso
things pare absent. The music, the
music .alone, le,hie entemtaisun amt.
Pram the paint of view of the musi-
cal .enlightenment Of abbe 1iatsner,'such
conditlef s, which *Wine isle interest
to the mabtem in halite, are. ideal condi,
doom. The ttsbener who le lanxioue ,to
get at the heart of •mead° he !s "bearing
ofeen complains of the ddutraotlom,s
boo obviously before hie eyes infer
the lights of the 'conceal, room,
He is unable, wtblrmut spacial meas.
sures to; that ,ewal, to oonoentrate upon -,
the mimic In perfo'rnllamiee. Ile hears
tt do the ooneent room, of .°curacy bat
he leans it ramose a confusion set up
by wh'a't he seas. Only,' now and then
that must° has, in it such overmaster•
is,g appeal that he is swept away from
the non-essenttale about him, theeeene
before his eyes fades out, he.seesnoth-
ing sane ,the inward ,vision of a mind
awakened and iuispdred by the splen -
der, os• the grace, of the musk.
Freed From Distractions.
For the devoted 'fattener to music it
Is the ,great vititwe of .the music of the
radio, the psomograph arab the player-
piano that, listening to it, he is freed
from all the diistraottone attendant up-
on. lsulsiie muetesil performance. He is
alone with Elie music, Its appeal 18
the undiluted appeal of its own worth.
Ile listens to it closely., and: he beans
it clearly, the two factors in, listening
Which em essential to an Understand -
Mg of what is heard,
Further, ,hire undisturbed lisibeniug to
phonograph and player -piano music al-
lows
llows to the listener not only that re•
suit, but others, too., It is"bhs peculiar
value of those instratnenta'thet they
can repeat their muoic over and; over
again, To be able to hear eves and
over again, and without distraction,
the music he desires to bear, is steely
of advantage to the listener, If he le
a student of music the advantage is
ohvioue, but it i5 no lees certain in the
case of those who merely wish to hear
again and again the music they like.
Both phonograph records• and player -
Marro rolls are oftenpreferred because
uhey reproduce familiar music. • But
it le elate to say that it urea never so
familiar ae. it becomes in •thee• •course of
phonograph and player -piano perform-
ances heard, as they usually ars heard,
ocardLtions' which allow undisturbed
and conoentrated attention upon .them.
There are, it ie .terse, people who, lie-
teeing to nmusic, prefer to Share the in-
serest of the ear with those' litany .
terests of the eye whieh.the concert
roam and the opera houere provide,
There are tdvcas even who, while they
listen to radio music, also read a book,
or a newspaper, anSi those who eon-
ewiwe with aphelia friends while the
phonograph or the player piano .as in
performrasroe. But the seriotu• l:a,tenera
to music, the listeners who wise to
listen to It intelligently, to bear M to
the full, to take front: it ,.hose bent do -
lights of it, its highest beauty, its ieet
refinements, it , noblest eloquence --
emelt as these -will always, prefer to
listen to music with the concentration
Possible only within a surrounding ua-
tnwubLed by distraction trona witheet.
Aud radio, the phonograph and the
player -piano provide them with pre-
cisely the conditions they desire.
The First Coronation.
Charles Charlemagne, King of the
laranks, 800 13.C,, wee the first Euro-
pean to be crowned iu what was con-,
eddered the modern way. Previous to
his crowning all rulers had made away
with the possessor of the crowns and
then stole them. S7mpress Irene mats
empress at the time because she used
guile to elevate her son to the throne.
Then she pact out his eyes and took.
the crown to herself, "as. it is written
of Athaliatltin the Book of Kings."
Charlemagne decided to steal the
Drown from iter but meantime the
Pope decided to take a hand, claiming
that all 'crowns belonged by divine
right to the Popes and oonssquently
the crowns were theirs to give. One
day when Charlemagne was at prayer
in church the Pope descendled from
the alter and placed the crown on
Charlemagne's head. Such a thing
was entirely unsuepeeted but Charle-
magne decided to let things stand that
way.
Only In the Mornings.
Noticing a man who appeared to be
a laborer sounding in front of a build-
ing under construotiom, the foreman
enquired:
"Hey! Want a job?"
"Sure, but I eau oniy work in the
mornings."
"Wily?„ •
"B,eoause I have to carry a banner
In the unemployed parade in the after -
me.
a oss have ' ere at feat into the view, noon."
me, I wish to speak the truth from PhoaliaLliilits ,serene
trove is bat a - --- es- ---^ .
my ower "convictions of right, but not shrine No Ivan is so ignorant that he does
Tay bare my influsncs thought, gov-
On which I offer ftp my soul to you. not know what he would do if he were
erred by an influence which I am -George 1i1liston, in your place.
powerless to,'vie:d or withhold ; but I-
seeemessaa'ssserssee-. Terre'.
REG'LAR- FELLERS ---By Gene Byrnes.
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--teiessais
Nature's Sculpture..
There has been a good deal of die.
cuseion recently of sculptors and their
efforts, but Dame Nature can do al-
most as well as human artists.
The Cornish coast is singularly pro- r::
Bile in faces in the rock, carved by
wind and wave and weather. livery
visitor to Land's End its taken to a cer-
tain point of vantage where eau be
seen the rugged features of Dr. John-
son, ,but in this ease a little imagine
tion is required.
Par better is the remarkable like -
nese of Queen Victoria on the north
coast of Cornwall. At Redruthen
S tope. the Queen Dlivebeth Block rises
majestically out of the sands.
Every motorist through the Lake
District sees the Lion grid the Lamb,
on the summit of a mousatata. near •
Greener°. The lion especially looks
as well carved as ono gt the Lanatseor
lions in Trafalgar Square.
Streatgely enough, approaching from
the other aide, two or three trifles be-
yond, another rock 012 the same moun-
tain taken precisely' the same form,
and on coming closer this rock
changes to what tis -called The Ladyat.
the Organ. Tiiis is a *meat bock in
the stave of an organ, it which site
a woman wit11- outstretched hands, as
though producing <"the sound of a
great 'Amen '
Just One: of Them.
"I Tett my money at haeme," said ,the
lady to the 5ondniotar. , "Yost will have
to trust use. 'I em ono of the directors
wives,,' •
I am soauy, madam" rspllsd the
c0sduotar. "I can't 60 thaileven if you;
were -the dmreetor"s oely wife."